Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-11-17
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The Downing party In the CheroRee
contest In the Indian Territory, held a
caucus on the 9th and will endeavor to
GUST Chief Bushyhead and thus gain one
vote in the Senate. Everything is quiet
so far.
] CASHIER CRECELIUs of the Fifth Nation
| al Bank of st. Louis was arrested on the
| 9th on a charge of making false entries,
| reports and statements concerning the
! banks condition. He was held in $25, 600
bonds by the United States Commissioner.
| CAPTAIN WARREN, the owner of five of
the captured canadian sealers, is now in
| Ottawa, Ont, and expresses his deterrni-
nation of pressing the matter by appeal
| to the Supreme Court of the United States.
THE general missionary committee of
| the Methodist Church opened it's session in
New York on the 9th. Discussion of the
| annual appropriation was the prin cipal
| business of the day.
AT a meeting of creditors of the Ma
tional Rubber Company at Providence, R.
| l., on the 9th, a statement was presented
| showing assets amounting to 1,096, 24s;
| liabilities, $685. S4. A committee was APP
| pointed to report on the subject of reor.
| ganization or sale.
A MOVEMENT was started at Chicago on
| the 9th to save Anarchist Lingg from the
| gallows and confine him in an asylum on
| the ground that he is insane.
LAND COMMISSIONER SPARES has re-
| jected the selections of the Oregon & Cal
ifornia railroad for about 80 900 acres of
| land in Oregon within quadrant formed
by restoration to the public domain of the
forfeited portion of the Oregon Central
railroad grant.
| AT Chenango Bridge, N. Y, on the sth,
| eleven women offered their votes, which
were accepted and deposited in the boxes.
| They votad the Sfro jyh Prohi hit ion ar
| PRESIDENT CLEVELAND issued procla-
nation on the 9th publishing the amended
reciprocity treaty between the United
| States and Hawaii, agreed upon by the
plenipotentiaries of the two governments
| December 6, 1884, and since ratified by
both nations.
| THE President has appointed Judge
John w. Emerson, of Ironton, No., to the
| position of United States marshal of the
Eastern district of Missouri.
| The sheriff of Taylor County, Ia, has
arrested a man named M. B. Foster for
the murder of Emmett Reed. The two
men had been working on railroad near
! Bedford, Ia, and were on their way
West.
NINE of the bandits captured by the
| military near Matamoras, Mexico, have
been executed. Among the captured
bandits not yet executed are Epeminio
Posules, the noted brigand, who led the
attack ON the Alcisesa ranch.
THE main building of the Soldiers Or
phans' Home at Davenport, Ia, was
burned at half-past four O'Clock on the
| morning of the 9th. The building was
completely Quilted. Insured for $50, 900;
| loss $4,000. The cause of the fire was a
stroke of lightning. The fifty occupants
of he building got off unframed.
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, English member
of the Fisheries Commission, has accepted
an invitation to a banquet rendered by the
Canadian Club of New York, the date to
be fixed later. 1t will be made an affair
| of much moment.
| JUDGE ICHABoD G. NETTLEsHIP, of New
ark, N. j., died on the 9th, aged sixty-five
years. While in the United States secret
service Nettleship was instrumental in
| causing many arrests for counterfeitin g
in different parts of the country.
| THE Lord Mayors procession in London,
| on the 9th, was of the tamest DIES cription.
There was a heavy rainfall, and the
! threatened demonstration of roughs did
| not take place.
| THE Fish Commissions steamer Alba
tross was expected to sail from Washing
| ton on the 10th or 18th, to make the trip
around the Horn to San Francisco. Very
| little is known of the number and charac-
! ter of the food fishes of the Pacific, and
an extended exploration by the agents of
| the commits sion is to be made in those
waters.
THERE was a net profit, according to
the report of Director of the Mint Kim
ball, on the silver coinage of the last fis-
cal year, of 1883, 9O9.64. The coinage of
minor coin during the past year was also
unusually large, some 100000 pieces of
an aggregate value of 9,134000 having
been turned out.
THE National farmers congress assem-
bled at Chicago on the 10th.
THERE were conditions bordering on a
panic in the New York cotton market on
the 10th, and prices advanced sixty points
on the short crop news.
A JAIL delivery occurred at Tahlequah,
I. T., on the 10th, and fifteen prisoners
escaped.
AT a regular meeting of the Board of
Trustees of the Princeton IN. j. Coll ege,
on the 10th, DR.. McCosh resigned the
presidency of the college.
JAMES P. MCCABE, who murdered
Michael Riley on December 30, 1885, in
Wayne County, Pa. was hanged at Homes
dale on the 10th. There was no excite
ment. -...----. --
The American Public Health Associa-
ton, in session at Memphis, Tenn, on the
10th, discussed a number of important
matters connected with the National and
State boards of health service.
JOHNNY WARD, Mr.. Won der Abe and
other base ball magnates are in New ork,
ank base ball circles are interested to
know what is Gin the wind"
JAMES CALVIN, aged forty years, a coal
miner, was instantly killed in Beard &
Sullivan's mines at Danville, Ind, on the
10th, by the premature discharge of pow
der while blasting coal. Lincoln Howell
was fatally injured in the same acci-
dent.
DIR. WIN. O'GoRMAN, noted physician
of Newark, N. j., died at his home OH the
10th.
On warrant issued by Justice Patter-
son in New York, on the 10th, detective
sergeants Tissuro and Bruner arrested
Andrew Massante, a grocer of No. 81 Watt
street, who had threatened to kill on
sight Mrs. Mary Rocca, country woman
of his.
o. n. ANDERSON, a lunatic, was being
conveyed to the Insane Hospital at Chi
cago in an ambulance on the morning of
the 10th. On the way he heard of Lingg's
suicide at the Jail, and concluded it would
be a good idea for him to do likewise
Accordingly he took q razor from his
pocket and cut his throat. He will
probably die.
THE Giant Powder Mills of Rummell &
Co., seven miles west of Toledo, O., were
the scene of terrible explosion on the
10th, by which loss of 5000 was sus-
tanned. -Four men were at work at the
time, but ali miraculously escaped injury.
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